egocentric

What it means

1. Selfish, self-centered, self-absorbed.

   "They don't realize they're part of something bigger and greater. They don't realize their presence in the world can make it a better place. They're so egocentric," she said.

   2018, Katherine Reynolds Lewis, The Good News About Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever — And What to Do About It, page 68

   Synonyms: self-minded, solipsistic, egoistical, every man for himself, idiocentric, individualistic, interested, porkish

2. Egotistical.

   Synonyms: egotistic, full of oneself

3. Relating to spatial representations: linked to a reference frame based on one's own location within the environment (as when giving the direction as "right" rather than "north"); opposed to allocentric.

   Antonyms: allocentric

In a sentence

"They don't realize they're part of something bigger and greater. They don't realize their presence in the world can make it a better place. They're so egocentric," she said.

2018, Katherine Reynolds Lewis, The Good News About Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever — And What to Do About It, page 68

Where it comes from

From ego- + -centric.